Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Grant
Instead, how about a 6-drive RAID 10 array with no hot spare? My guess is this would mean much greater fault-tolerance both overall and during the rebuild process (once a new drive is swapped in). That would mean not only potentially increased uptime but decreased monitoring responsibility.

Re: [gentoo-user] DBus and network namespaces

2013-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:50:10 +0400, Pavel Volkov wrote: I launch some apps from inside a network namespace in order to force them to communicate through my VPN interface only. But they fail to use DBus then. Some examples of what goes wrong: 1. Chromium cannot launch system proxy settings

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-15 7:15 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: You would prefer 4-drive RAID 10 plus a hot spare to 6-drive RAID 10? Isn't 6-drive RAID 10 superior in every way except for cost (1 extra drive)? I would prefer X-drive RAID10 plus hot spare in *any* situation. But, this always loses

Re: [gentoo-user] udev doesn't turn off touchpad on boot.

2013-09-16 Thread joost
东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com wrote: No,I only seperate /home and /usr/portage. And now I don't use initramfs to boot. 2013/9/16 jo...@antarean.org 东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com wrote: I have /etc/udev/rules.d/touchpad.rules,content as below: ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==input,

Re: [gentoo-user] udev doesn't turn off touchpad on boot.

2013-09-16 Thread 东方巽雷
Never work when remove them. 2013/9/16 jo...@antarean.org 东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com wrote: No,I only seperate /home and /usr/portage. And now I don't use initramfs to boot. 2013/9/16 jo...@antarean.org 东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/16/2013 02:49 AM, Grant wrote: If it's Type 2, then four drives with a spare is equally tolerant. Slightly better, even, if you take into account the reduced probability of 2/5 of the drives failing compared to 2/6. Thank you very much for this info. I had no idea. Is there another

[gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based music/media player don't start playing music anymore. I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when starting

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 16/09/13 at 01:37pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there, I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based music/media player don't start playing music anymore. I've tried Amarok,

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-16 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer which must mean a free license. No. IBM has a general strategy to suck you in so caveat emptor.. You really wan to install IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA). It looks like a

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: Hi there, I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based music/media player don't start playing music anymore. I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine

[gentoo-user] trouble installing cups

2013-09-16 Thread gottlieb
When I reinstall CUPS /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is *not* updated. Details follow. Cups was behaving badly: the web interface could not be used. The browser would quickly say no process was listening on localhost:631 I compared cupsd.conf to the same file on another working system and noticed the

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups

2013-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:28:05 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: So I reinstalled cups but /etc/cups/cupd.conf was not changed and still has its old date and contents. The merge looks clean (output below) /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed. Also, portage knows if you are reinstalling the same version of

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups

2013-09-16 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 16 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:28:05 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: So I reinstalled cups but /etc/cups/cupd.conf was not changed and still has its old date and contents. The merge looks clean (output below) /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed. This part I knew,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID controller? Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity of

[gentoo-user] gcc specs file change multilib_defaults no effect.

2013-09-16 Thread 东方巽雷
Hello,everyone. I found that the gcc specs file has such contents: // *multilib: . !m64 !m32 !mx32;64:../lib64 m64 !m32 !mx32;32:../lib32 !m64 m32 !mx32;x32:../libx32 !m64 !m32 mx32; *multilib_defaults: mx32 // I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-16 Thread Grant
Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer which must mean a free license. No. IBM has a general strategy to suck you in so caveat emptor.. You really wan to install IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA). Nevermind! It looks like a substitute for Nagios.